These pages cover SQL Compare 13, which is not the latest version. Help for other versions is also available.
Deploying to Microsoft Azure SQL databases
Published 04 June 2013
With SQL Compare, you can compare and deploy Microsoft Azure SQL databases.
Object types not supported
Microsoft Azure SQL databases don't support the following object types:
| Application Roles |
| Assemblies |
| Asymmetric Keys |
| Certificates |
| Contracts |
| Defaults |
| Event Notifications |
| Full Text Catalogs |
| Message Types |
| Partition Functions |
| Partition Schemes |
| Queues |
| Application Roles |
| Routes |
| Rules |
| Services |
| Service Bindings |
| Extended Stored Procedures |
| Numbered Stored Procedures |
| Symmetric Keys |
| Remote Synonyms |
| System Tables |
| User-Defined Types |
| XML Schema Collections |
If you try to deploy an unsupported object to a Microsoft Azure SQL database, the deployment script will fail.
T-SQL and SQL Server feature support
Microsoft Azure SQL databases have further limitations that can cause SQL Compare deployments to fail. For example, Microsoft Azure SQL databases don't support encryption, data compression, or SQL Server replication.
For full details of these limitations, refer to your Microsoft documentation on Resolving Transact-SQL differences during migration to Azure SQL Database.
